"Ah, why am I left to complain" is an eighteenth-century Lenten hymn written by the English hymnwriter Charles Wesley.
The text was first published in his two-volume collection Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures in 1762, and was subsequently republished in 1794. The hymn expresses penitential reflection and earnest longing for divine comfort during the season of Lent.
In 1875, the hymn was selected for inclusion as No. 777 in the new edition of A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (commonly known as the Wesleyan Hymn-Book). The complete original text was also collected and preserved in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868 to 1872, Volume X, page 26).
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